Most cat owners know exactly how this goes. Cats go by the sun, not by the clock, and when it gets light early, they want to get up early. Not a lot interesting is happening, though.

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Caturday, and the cats have some evidence to dispose of. Not a whole lot to report, actually. Friday was pretty normal, with the exception of some really obtuse and hard to track down error reporting from a Nagios plugin. When all the documentation for the plugin says “use -i foobar.pub to make everything work”, and [...]

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It was only a matter of time before someone combined silly Net memes with bad math jokes and produced what you see to the left. Got to read Schlock Mercenary: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance. It’s pretty good. Schlock and Tagon’s Toughs sell some bad guys into slavery, take on some slave traders, participate in [...]

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This Schlock book came in the mail late on Wednesday. Yay! I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but that day will come soon. What’s not to like about a bunch of sociopaths acting as a mercenary company, a pile of talking poop, a mad scientist, and an A.I. with delusions of grandeur [...]

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Sunday, I got up way too early, then woke John up. He drove me to the airport. I got to the ticket counter, checked in, got my boarding pass, and started to go through security. Then I realized that my wallet was missing. I called John. My wallet was in the back seat, as it [...]

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Saturday, John and I spent most of the afternoon walking around downtown Detroit. This is not quite as dangerous as you might think, and can actually be boring. There are many more really tall buildings in Detroit than there are in Phoenix, and about 75% of them are vacant and in disrepair. It’s kind of [...]

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OK, I can’t think of anything that would work as a picture for this entry. Anyway: Friday, I got on the plane, and everything was fine. About 20 minutes after takeoff, the captain said, “Um, someone left a valve open. This means all the water we had in our tanks has drained out. This means [...]

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This dog is seriously fluffy. Leaving early Friday morning for Dan’s wedding. This may mean a serious lack of blog updates until I get back. I should have a little bit of spare time, but getting Net connectivity may be difficult, or expensive, or something. When I do get back, I’ll post some pictures and [...]

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Not a lot to say about Wednesday, other than that stupid crises will always tend to happen when I’m trying to eat lunch, and that they will consume far too much time. Ah well. I’m still reading through The Pentagon’s New Map: Blueprint for Action, and though I’m only 60% of the way through it, [...]

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Sometimes, you have to realize that you’re too fat to fit in those old clothes. Trivia: We had a really hard time deciding on a team name. “It’s like watching retards fight” was apparently too offensive. We went with “Mohorovic Discontinuity” to see how the quizmaster would mispronounce it. The big excitement in everyone’s lives [...]

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